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Page 10: What stays with you latest and deep
Page 15 and 16: family had given him up for dead. O
Page 18: PART I
Page 23 and 24: One The One-Boy Insurgency IN THE P
Page 25 and 26: only audience was a scattering of d
Page 27 and 28: turpentine and a lot of scrubbing b
Page 29 and 30: with airplanes. In a childhood of a
Page 31 and 32: hoping to goad him into uttering It
Page 33 and 34: Knowing that punishing Louie would
Page 35 and 36: some twenty thousand people. When L
Page 37 and 38: Two Run Like Mad THE REHABILITATION
Page 39 and 40: training felt like one more constra
Page 41 and 42: He came home with a mania for runni
Page 43 and 44: faster than Pete’s record. At ano
Page 45 and 46: Three The Torrance Tornado IT HAPPE
Page 47 and 48: crammed the grandstands. Embarrasse
Page 49 and 50: The idea was a stretch. The mile wa
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Lash shifted right to pass Deckard.
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him. Across the room, Norman Bright
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Four Plundering Germany THE LUXURY
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were laid out, and Louie, who had s
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discreetly moved the deer out. One
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stadium, eyeing the fans. A German
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Nearing the finish line for the pen
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was a liter, which took Louie a goo
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us.” The group found a gentile re
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Five Into War AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
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attended Harvard, Yale, or Princeto
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estraining his stride to avoid runn
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neighboring nations’ soil. They w
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On, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia
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Hawaiian morning. Oahu was beginnin
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meter Olympic champion, gave his go
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Six The Flying Coffin AS JAPANESE P
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conquest, wouldn’t give in. For t
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A last family photograph as Louie l
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home, they called him Allen; in the
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uoyant disposition, a quick mind, a
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Moznette wouldn’t stay with the c
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if struck in combat. Some of the me
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Louie, Phil, and their crew saw the
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As Louie set off to right this wron
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package in the mail, addressed to h
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Seven “This Is It, Boys” OAHU W
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Louie, ready for the chill of high
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from the deck was so hasty, it look
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poker, divvied up Cecy’s care pac
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scrounged up a bag of flour, recrui
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craned into the dark, swerving away
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Phil wrestled Super Man out of its
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and aiming for it. The engines kept
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Eight “Only the Laundry Knew How
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The first loss had come on the flig
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in hand. Twice in one week, Super M
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strangest incident occurred when a
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parachute deployed, dragging the pl
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ose to the surface in a pool of blo
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equipped, and procedures ineffectiv
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Japanese territory. On Kwajalein, t
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wouldn’t go up without it. The ot
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Nine Five Hundred and Ninety-four H
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was scrambled to hunt for it. After
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plane on each wing. The sun rose, a
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The air battle over Nauru. There wa
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Just as Louie turned to leave the g
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seated position. Brooks slumped for
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find it. The urgency of the moment
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under the top turret. No one knew t
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The question of how to stop the bom
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* Eight months later, Charlie Pratt
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attack. The airmen and journalists,
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fires. Louie and the others stayed
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places. The man who had run into th
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Six.” Everyone expected them to r
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would be hospitalized for five mont
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Across the island at Hickam Field,
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about to do. “There was only one
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enormous Cuppernell squeezed around
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One terrible, tumbling second passe
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immediately vomited up the salt wat
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Twelve Downed THE OCEAN WAS A JUMBL
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“I’m glad it was you, Zamp,”
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so, the instruments had gone to the
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to them. The sun sank, and it becam
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Hornet had not crashed during the f
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without points of reference, they h
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disappear over the horizon, not far
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for help. —— As the lost men dr
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into the cottage to perform the gri
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Jordan’s job was to train cadets
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Fourteen Thirst PHIL FELT AS IF HE
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of it, Louie sensed that he was con
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hellish limbo, the albatross hung a
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hunger had quickly driven many of R
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silence. Sometimes he’d ask Louie
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hopelessness, were becoming self-fu
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prayers each night. Mac remained in
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scratching and rubbing at his face,
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Fifteen Sharks and Bullets ON THE M
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the rafts. The bullets showered the
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circled back, and Louie ducked into
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waves, letting it dry in the sun. T
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sun in daytime and the cold at nigh
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Sixteen Singing in the Clouds LOUIE
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long passed. Louie thought he could
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their entourage weren’t large eno
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Francis McNamara on May 26, 1943, t
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One morning, they woke to a strange
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him from tumbling off. It was his p
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Seventeen Typhoon ALL DAY, UNDER A
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They woke in a new universe. They h
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was his first food in eight days.
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clean sheets, their stomachs full,
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Richard Olbert, William Pallesen, a
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Eighteen A Dead Body Breathing SOME
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his entire palm was crimson. His di
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The guards, like nearly all citizen
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flushed with fear, thinking that he
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would likely assert his authority.
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again pulled from his cell. Outside
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Louie was brought to interrogation
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Nineteen Two Hundred Silent Men LOU
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American and the fat Japanese bottl
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other in Morse code—fists for dot
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men were paired off, given clots of
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enemies, seeing them as brutish, su
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punched like a heavyweight. No offi
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—— In Ofuna’s theater of crue
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Twenty Farting for Hirohito AT FIRS
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in part by eating ants. He had join
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strong enough to run, so he and a f
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But this small declaration of self
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had wagers riding on when it would
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international running stars were we
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Before Christmas, the Americans had
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punished. The race was about a mile
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Twenty-one Belief BEHIND TORRANCE H
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decided to move back in with her pa
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Louie peering through a hole in the
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ecause of the sketchiness of the re
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After Smitty’s letter, no news ca
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oat and sail from island to island
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extremely concentrated, meant to be
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that the Allies were closing in on
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laming it on rats. Fitzgerald noted
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miles on the Sea of Japan in a stur
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Allied invasion, the captives were
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Harris’s handmade Japanese-Englis
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grotesquely disfigured, his eyes gl
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Mutsuhiro Watanabe, “the Bird.”
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there stood a rickety canopy. He or
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would have tragic consequences for
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“elephant semen,” and, once, a
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admitting that beating prisoners br
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him, and at times, he seemed to hon
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Twenty-four Hunted AFTER A DAY SPEN
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When new POWs arrived at Omori, the
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camp. The first time Louie saw them
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the fish tails so they wouldn’t s
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fixation on him, and was desperate
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knock Louie down; Louie wobbled but
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Twenty-five B-29 ON ONE OF THE LAST
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on the orders of the guards, when a
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their number in Japanese. After Nov
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instead, the strangers were friendl
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(Silvie) Zamperini, United States A
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with the aftermath of the public an
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and I have no kick coming. Please w
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The messages relaying the content o
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this reminds me of another fellow w
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Louie was dumped back at Omori. The
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distant booming. —— As the fall
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hear him charging through camp in a
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them afflicted with dysentery. In o
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Glassman, mother of the belly gunne
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storehouse, Mansfield had discovere
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If the rice cakes performed as engi
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pounced on him again, joining sever
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Only eleven men escaped. They swam
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On the evening of March 1, the chos
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Twenty-eight Enslaved LOUIE WOULD R
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POWs at Naoetsu. Australian War Mem
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attacks. Once again in his tormente
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ibbons of white unfurling behind it
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herded onto another of the barges,
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would wait until the operator stepp
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a railroad car. He carried his bask
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Twenty-nine Two Hundred and Twenty
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Immediately, he set to beating the
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club any men who didn’t strike th
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arracks heating fuel were going to
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comply with the stipulation that th
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Thirty The Boiling City NO ONE IN N
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Several minutes passed. Louie stood
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listed on the leaflets were Hiroshi
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arracks, and up the ladder without
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skidded out in all directions. The
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Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Nagasaki
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A few minutes later, at noon, the c
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The Bird reappeared, apparently bac
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looked up at it. The bomber was hea
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goods, was an American magazine. On
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the fact that all the POWs were sti
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O. Young in his diary. “To stand
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friends drank two gallons of cocoa.
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POW camp is straight ahead, on the
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corner. A few days before, he might
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jumped right in with them, scrubbin
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combat and in the POW camp.
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een immolated by B-29s. A few of th
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y the airfield, watching transport
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doughy, moon-faced, muscleless weig
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Liberation was a long time coming f
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there was a moonlit jeep ride with
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wanted to take them somewhere, feed
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transferred from Hawaii to San Fran
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* One POW’s worst nightmare came
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Thirty-four The Shimmering Girl ON
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“Sit back and take it easy,” Wa
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oad, so the only change in the addr
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Everyone wanted him to tell his sto
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accompanied him. Across the room, a
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family lived in New York State, she
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Chevy convertible and overhauled it
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ecoming real. Whatever it was, Loui
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Thirty-five Coming Undone FROM ACRO
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found that twenty-two years after t
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ever need, and stockpiling bulk pac
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credits short, he had no college de
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would limp for weeks more. A doctor
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the suffering he caused, making his
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Reaching the hot springs resort com
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deaths of five captives. Also convi
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In the winter of 1946, Kano was fin
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in and saw her brother. The family
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elationship. All he told her was th
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licenses to Americans. As his partn
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Cynthia Zamperini. Frank Tinker Cyn
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summer, Sweden’s Henry Eriksson w
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weeks after Christmas. Louie was so
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scrutiny for two years. When Octobe
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fairly spacious backyard, and stood
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Graham’s weight was dropping, and
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that was going through your mind ev
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the strength to out-last their sorr
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peace. When he thought of his histo
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Louie (right) at Sugamo. Courtesy o
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violence. Bereft of his dignity, Lo
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Louie demonstrates rappelling to hi
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cannonballing down mountains. Louie
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—— With the war over, Phil beca
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The men who had befriended Louie in
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Thirty-two-year-old William Harris
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they had taken since pneumonia had
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crimes, the designation for those w
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insurance agency in Tokyo, and it r
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The Daily Mail article apparently r
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—— Mihailovich rented a room at
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to write. —— To Matsuhiro [sic]
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he’d been subjected to inhumane t
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other sources, his recollections pr
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me, reliving his days aboard his be
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of my interviews, straining to hear
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High School. Others who assisted me
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table, poring over my manuscript an
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ABBREVIATIONS AAFLA Amateur Athleti
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PART I Chapter 1: The One-Boy Insur
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interview, October 22, 2004. 14 “
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7 Cunningham: Mark D. Hersey, “Cu
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interview by George Hodak, Hollywoo
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22 “jackass eating cactus”: Tel
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Mandell, The Nazi Olympics (Urbana:
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28 Meeting Hitler: Louis Zamperini,
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Degreecheck.com, April 2007. 6 Loui
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19 Japan’s economic plight, ambit
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Guarding the United States and Its
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5 Japanese staffers burning documen
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17 “I’ve wished 100 times”: R
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34 Phil’s B-24: Stanley Pillsbury
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15 “kind of daring”: Russell Al
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Final Report, 7 December 1941-31 De
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26 September 1942 raft ordeal: Clev
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7 “We only hope”: Louis Zamperi
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15 Japanese never retrieved phospha
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Philip Scearce, email interview, Ju
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General, RG 92; NACP; “42nd Bomba
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PART III Chapter 12: Downed 1 Crash
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5 B-25 flies over: Louis Zamperini,
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19 Jordan learns news: Payton Jorda
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14 Quizzing: Louis Zamperini, telep
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Karen Loomis, NPN. 3 Sharks attacki
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CBS, La Porte, Ind., January 1997;
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AFHRA, Maxwell AFB, Ala.; Louis Zam
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PART IV Chapter 18: A Dead Body Bre
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20 Dengue fever: Louis Zamperini, t
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11 “transfer of oppression”: Ch
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the Far East, 1945-1947 (National A
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23 “To give you an idea”: John
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Cecy Perry, July 28, 1943. 13 Rever
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interview, February 16, 2005; K. P.
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2005; Norquist, pp. 277-79, 283-84;
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18 The Bird holding power over supe
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interview; Martindale, pp. 129-30;
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Legal Section, Administrative Divis
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1 Life in camp improves: Louis Zamp
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Cook, “Japan: C Force,” unpubli
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2 Four hundred POWs arrive: John A.
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1 B-29s coming over every night: Wa
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2002, http://dalesdesigns.net/inter
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John Cook, email interview, October
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interview by George Hodak, Hollywoo
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Crimes Case Files, compiled 1946-19
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15 Only four of sixteen men from ba
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undated article from papers of Pete
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8 Watanabe flees: Mutsuhiro Watanab
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27 Louie proposes: Louis Zamperini,
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no. 2, 2009, pp. 87-96; Robert Ursa
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Court Gives Sentence to POW Torture
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Chapter 37: Twisted Ropes 1 Louie p
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telephone interview. 12 Cynthia goe
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Peter Zamperini, NPN; Louis Zamperi
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20 Many defendants believed to be g
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March 5, 1998; R. J. Kelly, “Olym
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